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mill, Meal Bank
Meal Bank Mills
Meal Bank Woollen Mills
site name:-   Mint, River
locality:-   Meal Bank
civil parish:-   Scalthwaiterigg (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   mill
locality type:-   water mill
locality type:-   textile mill (woollen, spinning) 
coordinates:-   SD54059570
1Km square:-   SD5495
10Km square:-   SD59

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34 13) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Woollen Mill / Weir / Sluice / Mill Race"
tenter frames to the NW 

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD59NW.jpg
circle with rays; water mill 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

notes:-  
group of mills. Described by Somervell.

Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland

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